{If they die a natural death} or {if a natural fate is visited upon them}, Yahweh has not sent me.

Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,

and likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error.

For if God did not spare the {natural} branches, neither will he spare you.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If [there] is a natural body, [there] is also a spiritual [body].

But the spiritual [is] not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,